[governance] Secret Surveillance Puts Internet Governance System at Risk

[JFC Morfin]

At 23:40 07/08/2013, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
>IGF episode that revealed a number of things we weren't aware of in 
>terms of the commercialization of the event

Actually are we aware of the way ISOC or ITU or UNESCO decide of who 
is going to be selected and which department is going to benefit from 
others' money?  Also are we aware of the ways Governements round the 
world designate their representatives so they may travel with their 
wife to Bali? Or support their national manufacturers or ISPs? IMHO 
the customs of the other stakeholders classes have no importance to 
us. They are as much autonomous and authoritative as we want to be.

Should not what we can actually do to support the people's best 
interests in the cyberspace and centricity in the information society 
be what is of real importance to us?

I remember the dialogue between Bertrand de la Chapelle and Paul 
Towmey in the ICANN Paris meeting, when Bertrand told that France was 
concerned by the interests of the people who were not yet on the 
Internet and Paul answered that he was concerned by the interests of 
the people paying him. Both were legitimate in their own way. 
However, I do prefer the Homo humanus' philia which eventually led to 
mutual development over centuries, rather than the Homo economicus' 
best interest which opposed it so often and now results in the Crisis.

jfc  


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